Some May Find Comfort In Reflecting That

Necessity Resides In The Way We Talk About Things, Not In The Things We Talk About.

Irrefragability, Thy Name Is Mathematics.

We Cannot Stem Linguistic Change, But We Can Drag Our Feet. If Each Of Us Were To Defy Alexander Pope And Be The Last To Lay The Old Aside, It Might Not Be A Better World, But It Would Be A Lovelier Language.

Language Is Conceived In Sin And Science Is Its Redemption.

A Curious Thing About The Ontological Problem Is Its Simplicity. It Can Be Put Into Three Anglo-saxon Monosyllables: 'what Is There?' It Can Be Answered, Moreover, In A Word--'everything'--and Everyone Will Accept This Answer As True.